-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 12:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the > browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The > download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume > failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. > md5sum check failed! > > Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed > again with the same behaviour! > > Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time > with just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the "local file appears > to be the same as the remote file, no transfer necessary". > > And, yes, I switched explicitely to "binary" transfer! > > Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh! > > wobo
Howdy; Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least some bandwidth. Greg Meyer did a "mini tutorial" on doing that. A link can be found on the cooker TWiki, or at his page: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads. The "main" torrent page for triggering the download from a browser: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2 I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more trouble. If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up for probably another 12 hours or so. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 13:29:42 up 1 day, 14:59, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.23, 0.28 "Elvis is my copilot." - -- Cal Keegan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Xi6ZG11CaRuZZSIRAo5DAJ9Zw5bmXCne5sbicni3V+nqPwjeJACggffk /Va9fJHItkej04WWjGueSQA= =+jY8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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